Find/Replace shifts data to the right
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I am a NotePad++ user for a only a few months. I was able to Find commas and Replace with nothing using the Find/Replace box last week. Now Replace will delete the comma but shift rest of data line 3 spaces to the right. Here is my line of data.
15,00001,80287591,X,I could not copy and paste the Find/Replace box into here, but here are the main options:
Find what: ,
Replace with:
Wrap around is checked.
Search Mode is Normal.Here is my line of data after having Replaced the comma:
15 00001,80287591,X,I want it to look like:
1500001,80287591,X,Can anyone please help as I can not figure out what I may have done to cause this?
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Perhaps your “empty” replace with box contains some spaces?
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Jim, That was it. Thank you much. Since I was replacing with nothing, I could not see the spaces and thought perhaps I had messed up some option. I am good to go.
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If you would kindly upvote my answer, I’ll be able to post more often than once every 20 minutes! Thanks.
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Be glad to. How do you upvote?
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I clicked on the ^ symbol and it changed the number by it from 0 to 1. I hope that was the correct way to upvote your answer. This is my first visit to this site and apologize for being such a novice.
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That was it! Thanks, and welcome to the site.
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